Daniel Lozano

Updated Thursday, February 15, 2024-19:43

  • Repression Chavismo detains the Hispanic-Venezuelan Rocío San Miguel, a relevant figure of Venezuelan civil society

  • Caracas Chavismo imprisons the Spanish-Venezuelan activist Rocío San Miguel in the sinister Helicoide, headquarters of Maduro's political police

The Bolivarian Government has decreed the immediate closure of the office in Caracas of the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, in retaliation for the complaints made regarding the forced disappearance and imprisonment of Rocío San Miguel, a relevant figure of Venezuelan civil society. . The officials assigned to the Technical Advisory Office of the High Commissioner in Venezuela have

72 hours

to leave the country "until they publicly rectify before the international community their colonialist, abusive and violating attitude of the United Nations Charter," the Foreign Minister announced today. revolutionary,

Yván Gil

.

"This decision is made due to the improper role that this institution has developed which, far from showing it as an impartial entity, has led it to become the

private law firm of coup plotters and terrorist groups

that constantly conspire against the country," added the Foreign Minister.

The imprisonment of San Miguel, president of the NGO Citizen Control for Security, Defense and the National Armed Forces, unleashed a

wave of censure and criticism

, which was joined by High Commissioner

Volker Türk

, who demanded that "the guarantees of due process, including the right to defense".

The human rights activist, who remains imprisoned in the sinister Helicoide prison, is accused of terrorism, conspiracy and treason for allegedly collaborating in an alleged assassination attempt against

Nicolás Maduro

, one of the five denounced in the last weeks since the Bolivarian power.

In recent hours, Venezuelan organizations have demanded that the UN Office increase its pressure to visit San Miguel in his place of detention.

"This Office of the High Commissioner is very active in falsifying facts and prequalifying situations in relation to Venezuela, only to attack sovereignty and self-determination with lies, falsifications, misinformation and manipulations," insisted Gil, who has also announced that his Government will carry out

a "comprehensive review" of the technical cooperation launched with the UN

in 2019.